446 Responses to Midweek 5 July 2023

  1. Up2snuff says:

    Ooh, two in a row. Brissles will be livid, well maybe slightly aggrieved. Brissles, my dear old thing (well, it is the cricket season and Blowers, the dear oldest thing from TMS was on TOADY to comment on that dismissal) I hope you are well and still flighting the feathers into a double or treble twenty which ever is appropriate for the score of the moment.

    I would like to flight some feathers into the BBC who seem more biased than ever.

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  2. BigBrotherCorporation says:

    A little premature, no?

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    • Up2snuff says:

      BBC, I think I’m maturing faster than ever but would love to go back to be pre-mature. 😉

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Do you think it is ‘pre ‘ or ‘im’ ..? Sorry I’m in a funny mood as I am returning to Londonistan tomorrow – from a much higher civilisation …. The business lounge will be my counsellor ….

        … I’m guessing the BBC has decided mostly peaceful riots in France by the Islamic third world is replaced by Wimbledon …
        .. until the just thingy oil lot launch a suicide attack on hen man hill …

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        • Up2snuff says:

          Fed, I still remember how bad I felt when I reached the grand old age of twenty! No longer a teenager; Aaaauugghhhhhhhhhhhhh!

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  3. BigBrotherCorporation says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66104822
    Climate change: World’s hottest day since records began

    “The world’s average temperature reached a new high on Monday 3 July, topping 17 degrees Celsius for the first time.”

    Ok, BBC… if you say so.

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    • Flotsam says:

      Every day there will be a weather record of some sort somewhere in the World.

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    • Guest Who says:

      About that.

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    • StewGreen says:

      You could today with lots of satellites conceivably measure the surface temp of land at sea level BY MODELLING
      You haven’t been able to do that for long
      so of course records get broken
      That’s not the same as actual thermometers across Antarctica etc.
      no including the sea and the many levels n the atmosphere

      Also picking points in time is NOT climate

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      Adjustments and assumptions replacing measurments, except measurements from airports with warm air from tarmac, jet plane and air conditioning heat emissions.

      However the corruption is much more difficult for the BBC to support if you look at the Arctic Ice Surplus for June 2023: Data shows Northern Hemisphere ice extent remains greater than the 17 year average for this particular month: https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2023/07/02/arctic-ice-in-surplus-june-2023/

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      It’s jumper weather again in my house. I don’t think July will be setting any records.

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      • G says:

        Rob,

        Yes, thick socks and winter shirts as well, not to mention replacing a light blanket on the bed with the early summer duvet.

        Surprised at the Met Office, I would have thought that they would have preferred a balanced report but, no, they’re clearly now fully on the ‘Climate Catastrophe’ bandwagon now.

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  4. Fedup2 says:

    DT says Obama want Von der lyden as the next sec general of nato – happy days for Russia and China …

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  5. Deborah says:

    There is an advert now showing on GB News. It is for a mobile phone. There appears to be a lot of Black Afro-Caribbean women with just one or two women with light hair. It finishes by saying it is google pixel, ‘supporter of England teams’. I assume they are a football team as I did notice someone kicking a ball. Are the England women’s football team so predominantly black or has the advert centred on the black women in the team? Whatever, this advert doesn’t persuade me to buy the phone.

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    • tomo says:

      The Canal and Rivers Trust is running “narrowboat lifestyle” adverts on Twitter – guess what colour the majority (afaics) of the featured boaters are?

      Perhaps they can provision further floating accommodation? – there’s a demand, after all….

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      • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

        Tomo,
        To be fair, we have recently acquired quite a lot of enthusiastic dusky boaters. Not the narrow boat type, more the rubber inflatable type (but still a boat)
        Perhaps these ads are aimed at that audience.

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      • Banania says:

        When the native English are outnumbered by immigrants, will the advertisements start to show mainly white people?

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  6. Dickie says:

    Telegraph headline:

    “White House evacuated after cocaine found in routine sweep by Secret Service
    US president was not in when the ‘suspicious substance’ was discovered”

    Those Mexican cartels really should clear up after visiting Biden. Wouldn’t want anyone associating the white powdery stuff with Hunter.

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  7. StewGreen says:

    BBC Simon Jack put out a debunk Farage ..Twitter thread which sounded like it was dictated to him by Coutts
    ie PRasNews (also to BBC and FT)

    Farage in a quote tweet CONTRADICTS Simon Jack

    At no point in the last 10 years did Coutts give me a min threshold.

    More importantly, the offer of a Natwest personal acct only came after I went public last Thursday.

    No business solution was offered, and they even denied I was a PEP, which is why 9 other banks have said no.

    video :

    Jack has only posted one tweet, since his origonal story

    Thank you to the Coutts customers who have been in touch saying they fall below financial thresholds
    but unlike Farage have not been threatened with account closure.
    Clearly a lot of discretion available to the bank.

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    • Banania says:

      Mark Steyn last Monday featured Katie Hopkins and Tommy Robinson on his show, who have both had the Farage treatment the the last ten years, without getting any public symapthy.

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  8. Richard Pinder says:

    I agree with the collectivist authoritarian supranational socialist remainer, Professor Gavin Schaffer. The BBC comedies Allo Allo, Dads Army and Fawlty Towers, showed that those fighting to unite Europe are seen as the bad guy’s, and those fighting for freedom & democracy are seen as the good guy’s. These BBC comedies produced a prejudice in favour of freedom & democracy and against the collectivist authoritarian supranational socialism of Nazism and the European Union.

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  9. Richard Pinder says:

    The BBC’s ‘Marianna In Conspiracyland’ is suggesting that the Light newspaper has “taken hold” in Totnes.
    So I looked at my copy of ‘The Light’ newspaper. Headline: No Climate Crisis: Carbon dioxide has zero effect on temperatures: https://data.remss.com/msu/monthly_time_series/rss_monthly_msu_amsu_channel_c10_anomalies_land_v03_3.txt

    The Atmospheric Physics censored by the BBC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnt9YZyCTAQ

    But the BBC’s ‘Marianna In Conspiracyland’ source for empirical evidence is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg

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  10. Richard Pinder says:

    Three Verified ‘Conspiracy Theories’ for ‘BBC Verify’ & ‘Marianna In Conspiracyland’

    (1) Science: The pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding by following a systematic methodology based on empirical evidence, information, measurement and data gathered directly or indirectly through observation or experimentation that may be used to prove or disprove a scientific theory or to help justify, or establish as reasonable, a person’s belief in a given proposition.

    (2) Scientism: A modern progressive belief that repudiates all other similar metaphysical, philosophical and religious beliefs as misinformation, disinformation and malinformation, as these beliefs they proclaim cannot be apprehended by those who see science as the absolute and only justifiable access to the truth. However Science can prove Scientism wrong with a new discovery which is then censored as a ‘conspiracy theory’ by those who support Scientism in the Government and Media.

    (3) Scientology: A belief that each human has a reactive mind that responds to life’s traumas, clouding the analytic mind and keeping us from experiencing reality. Scientology is a less extreme religion than the evil satanic religion of Scientism, which dominates Global governance under the guidance of Greta Thunberg.

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    • Scroblene says:

      If the BBC told the truth in the first place, there’d be no reason for yet another feeble talking shop like Verify.

      I suppose Beebolics think that if they grab and employ as many kids straight out of their unis with stupid ‘degrees’, the appeal to the next generation will be satisfied!

      Clearly, using people like Savile, Harris and Hall didn’t work in the long run…

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  11. StewGreen says:

    9am Radio4 Immigration numbers special

    “More than 1.2 million people came into the country to stay for more than 12 months in 2022.
    As only 560,000 left the country, this means net migration is at an all-time high.
    Both the Prime Minister and Home Secretary have said the number of people coming needs to come down. But who counts as an immigrant ..?”

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  12. Jeff says:

    BBC4 are giving us an evening of endless treats this evening.

    It’s all to do with our blessed NHS (God be praised) with patients and staff telling their own stories. Sounds like a must watch…

    At 9.10 they give us the real headline act, Black Nurses: The Women Who Saved The NHS: all about those altruistic African and Caribbean women who came to our rescue in the 50s and 60s.

    I’ve got little doubt there will be heart breaking stories of how they faced racism and discrimination, but bravely battled on.

    I just thought I’d warn you…

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    ‘Gov’t must uphold the rule of law without fear or favour’ – Ellie Reeves on the Attorney General’s comments
    Ellie Reeves MP, Labour’s Shadow Solicitor General, reacting to the comments made by the Attorney General on the government’s willingness to break international law, said:

    “The Attorney General has demonstrated today that she has prioritised the political priorities of the government over upholding the rule of law in order to stay in office.

    “The role of the government’s law officers is clear, they must uphold the rule of law – without fear or favour, and what we have seen today is confirmation that there is no voice in this government to defend the rule of law.”

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    from order-order.com

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    “They’ve worded this extremely badly. The woman in question was jailed for harassing a grieving widow, including sending her death threats, and she did it after receiving a suspended sentence for similar behaviour. She would probably be better going in a mental home than a prison but she did earn it. I wonder why the police left that information out though. They seem to be deliberately implying you’ll get jail for just being rude to people online.”

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  15. andyjsnape says:

    Suspected cocaine found at White House sparking evacuation
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66104993

    Suspected? Was hunter there or not 🙂

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    • Scroblene says:

      “The BBC’s US partner, CBS News,”…

      Was I supposed to know that the BBC had a ‘partner’ in the US?

      Surely the charter doesn’t recognise having another state-registered organisation, however commercial, as a ‘partner’, does it?

      We all know that Beebolics get all their yank and other world news from the leftie rags like Huffpo, Wapo etc, but a ‘partnership’ stinks a bit when it’s someone like this…

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  16. JohnC says:

    I see that story about the tattooist stabbed by a schizophenic neighbour is still on the front page. Not even a murder yet he has received multiple, extreme-empathy articles from the BBC.

    So I checked the old favourite – London Violence to see what is being hidden from us in the past day.

    Straight away:
    ‘Man guilty of murder after stabbing teen in neck’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66101860

    ‘Godfrey Madondo, 20, killed Jeremiah Sewell, 19 …’ along with now-standard picture of the victim, but none of the murderer.

    A quick check shows the met police even have a picture of him on the page ‘for media use’ which the BBC clearly chose not to show.

    No surprise:

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    Also we have:
    ‘Boy dies in Tottenham after suspected attack and moped crash’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66094950

    An appeal for witnesses – but no information whatsoever about who was involved.

    Two more arrests in Islington double murder inquiry
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66092513

    Again a lovely picture of the 15 year old black victim. No other information whatsoever about the other stabbing or the people arrested.

    Just more of the usual racist BBC double standards to protect black murderers becasue it is ‘unhelpful’ to the agenda.

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  17. JohnC says:

    Watch: BBC editor ducks as gunfire interrupts report
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-middle-east-66104321

    Here we have a video of Jeremy Bowen operating with his friends behind Palestinian lines.

    But the main thing I got from that video is that watching his overall bearing, it’s clear to me that Jeremy is the completely useless idiot type who could not survive in the world without people like the BBC to employ him. I bet he couldn’t change a light bulb.

    It’s unfortunate for the BBC that the clip shows the terrorists shooting at the Israelies. They are supposed to be innocent victims.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      BBC report on BBC being with BBC about BBC reporting about BBC.
      “Watch: BBC editor ducks as gunfire interrupts report”

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    Prince William and Kate meet NHS’ first ever baby
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66095251

    Prof Huw Thomas: the role of the Queen’s personal physician
    Leader of the royal household’s team of medics is available to the monarch whenever he is needed
    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/08/prof-huw-thomas-the-role-of-the-queens-personal-physician

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  19. MarkyMark says:

    PROPAGANDA – They Showed This To High School Kids In 1948! Would They Allow This Today?

    “Very interesting, from a time when young people were taught to think, not what to think. Equally impressed by the diction and elocution.”

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  20. Fedup2 says:

    Not a BBC day for me – because of their worshiping of the New Religion – the NHS .

    But the cut and paste from the BBC website from May this year is a gentle reminder of the evil that lurks in their NHS

    STATRS Nineteen suspects have been identified by police as part of a new inquiry into hundreds of deaths at a hospital.
    An independent panel found 456 patients died after being given opiates inappropriately at Gosport War Memorial Hospital between 1987 and 2001.
    The new criminal investigation is being led by Kent Police after three previous ones by Hampshire Constabulary resulted in no prosecutions.
    Police said interviews with the suspects under caution were ongoing.‘

    And how’s that trial of the alleged nurse alleged baby killer going ?

    Don’t forget to clap …

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    A Department for Education official said it was developing further guidance to help schools “engage boys and young men about misogyny and sexual violence in education”.

    “Through the Online Safety Bill, technology firms will be required to enforce their age limits and protect children from being exposed to harmful material online,” the official added.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-66101396

    …………………………
    Bullying
    …………………………

    British man sues NHS after having sex organs removed in gender reassignment surgery
    The patient, who is in his 30s, said the surgery was the “biggest mistake” of his life

    https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/uk-world-news/british-man-sues-nhs-after-24318233

    The patient, in his thirties, complained how he did not know the surgery would leave him infertile, incontinent and feeling like a ‘sexual eunuch’. He transitioned from a man to a woman- and later de-transitioned from being a woman to live as a man again. (ALL FREE ON THE NHS)

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  22. MarkyMark says:

    Olivia Brechon-Smith, 33, a maths teacher at King Edward’s School (KES), said: “The impact that an all-black battalion of women stationed at KES [had] means so much to me, it’s inspiring as a black woman.

    all-black

    all-black

    all-black

    all-black

    racism

    all-black

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-66045635

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  23. AsISeeIt says:

    We’re only banking plans for Nigel edition

    Our establishment nationals turn their attention to the thorny issue of modern relationships: No secrets, date nights and separate rooms. Telegraph writers on the rules for a happy marriage.

    7 rules to save a marriage Esther Walker’s hot tips (Times 2)

    Meanwhile, the youth-orientated left-leaning ‘i’ newspaper is in no mood to promote trust and shared resources within a relationship: Money – a joint bank account isn’t for me

    Speaking of broken banking relationships…

    A First Direct [Bank] spokesman said they would not comment on individual cases. But said: ‘In general terms, decisions to end a customer relationship are not taken lightly, but are absolutely not based on individual beliefs’…. First Direct has also been accused of closing the account of the founder Wings over Scotland pro-Scottish independence blog, run by journalist Stuart Campbell. Mr Campbell has suggested that his accounts were closed because of his views on gender and sex, including declaring: ‘Women don’t have penises’. (Daily Mail) – presumably his strong views about breaking up the United Kingdom were no problem at all for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank subsidiary? Mind you, some of these Scots independence types do have something of a reputation for a bit of financial malfeasance (Alledgedly)

    Rev Fothergill, of Windermere, Cumbria, has since accused the banking giant [Yorkshire Building Society] of ‘bullying’ and said: ‘I wasn’t even aware that our relationship had a problem. They are a financial house – they are not there to do social engineering. I think they should concentrate their efforts on managing money, instead of promoting LGBT ideology.

    The retired vicar insists his observations were a polite rebuttal of transgenderism, in response to material on YBS’s website.

    But the building society wrote it has a ‘zero tolerance approach to discrimination’ and their relationship with the customer had ‘irrevocably broken down’. (Daily Mail)

    The odd couples… mixed doubles, anyone?

    Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said she was almost in tears speaking to Andy Murray in the club house after his Wimbledon win (Times) – and she is being fêted by our top national institutions because…? It’s not as though she were some national hero figure… like 007 James Bond? Didn’t she just happen to be on a holiday in Iran to visit family? Mind you, our Andy is an anyone but England fan.

    On the subject of modern mix and match relationships – apparently these days anything goes

    Kate and Fed’s love-in (The Sun); Princess of Wales honours tennis ace Federer… Anyone for tennis? Kate with former Wimbledon champion Roger Federer in royal box (Metro) – well that’s not cricket. Meanwhile, who’s hubby with today…?

    For whatever reason; the corporate advertising sheet the Metro goes all dewy-eyed over our nationalised health industry: Happy 75th birthday NHS Let’s do it Nye’s way… Cherish heath service, says its first baby – named after founder

    The Prince and Princess of Wales have met the first person born under the National Health Service, at a tea party celebrating the NHS’s 75th anniversary… Mrs Thomas has previously told a family story from before the founding of the NHS, recalling that when her grandfather broke his leg they had to sell their piano to pay the doctor’s bill. (BBC) – how about their tiny violins? Family piano! Us modern plebs are so over-taxed by government-stoked inflation and their hyper-immigration policy we can’t even afford a house or a flat to put the family piano.

    They try to tell us days our nationalised health care system is both efficient and an absolute freebie: ‘Staggering’ failures at heath security agency. Britain’s main public health body has a staggering lack of control over billions of pounds of spending (Telegraph)

    But the Tories love it: Barclay calls for evolution not revolution as NHS turns 75 (Times) – in truth the Tories are scared of it.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Health Secretary announces over £13 billion of debt will be written off as part of a major financial reset for NHS providers. From 1 April, over £13 billion of NHS debt will be scrapped as part of a wider package of NHS reforms announced by the Health Secretary today.2 Apr 2020

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      • G says:

        MM

        Hey, its all right, the Government can print as much money as the Gilt Market can stand so, what the hell, let the recklessness continue unabated. They’re really good at that!

        https://commodity.com/data/uk/debt-clock/

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        • MarkyMark says:

          United Kingdom Debt Clock: British National Debt Grow By The Second £ 2,609,069,162,067

          Read more at: https://commodity.com/data/uk/debt-clock/

          Interest Payments Per Year £71,006,965,392 Interest Payments Per Second £2,252 National Debt Per Citizen £38,817 Debt as % of GDP 121.10% GDP Of United Kingdom £2,154,552,486,677 United Kingdom Population 67,215,293

          Debt as % of GDP 121.10%

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          • Fedup2 says:

            Tory bust it – thanks marky …. A ready excuse for red Labour to carrying printing made up Money …

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        • MarkyMark says:

          RESULT OF THE SALE BY AUCTION OF £2000 MILLION OF 1½% GREEN GILT 2053
          The United Kingdom Debt Management Office (“DMO”) announces that the auction of £2,000 million of 1½% Green Gilt 2053
          (ISIN Code: GB00BM8Z2V59) has been allocated as follows:
          (Note: all prices in this notice are quoted in pounds and pence)

          Click to access 040723conventional.pdf

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          • Up2snuff says:

            MM, the Government from 2010-2015 was a sickly green colour, blue and orange mixed. 😉 It only became ‘blue’ in 2015.

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    • Charlie Farley says:

      AsISeelt ,
      As a Nationwide customer just had a look at their website……oh dear oh dear so much inclusion and diversity Sh1t …..10,000 Black internships ! …..suppose normal White Heterosexuality is not to be talked about or promoted anymore 😕
      We are now being Victimised for being normal and I thought the BBC was bad …. Labour in next year ” It can only get worse “

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  24. Thoughtful says:

    Here is a huge story which the media in Britain appear keen to supress.

    The Mafia Democrat party and its corrupt President have been ordered to cease any communication with social media companies after a court found they had probably breached 1st amendment rights by ordering social media companies to prevent certain people with opposing views to their accessing their web site to post their views.
    This is yet another “conspiracy theory” which has proven to be true.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/04/judge-limits-biden-administration-contact-with-social-media-firms-00104656

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  25. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – poor girls are suffering from harassment, poor HoC staffers are suffering from harassment

    Our female children are suffering at school from boys trying to get them ‘to go behind the bike shed’. Proposed solution: more sex education in schools. Young House of Commons staffers, both genders, are suffering harassment in the workplace. Anyone joining the dots? Increasing sex education in schools leads to …..

    “Duher!” as school children might say.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Ofsted chief’s warning over explicit sex education lessons
      Alarm at current guidance which places ‘no limits’ on what can be taught to children

      By
      Louisa Clarence-Smith,
      EDUCATION EDITOR
      9 March 2023 • 9:30pm

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/09/ofsted-chiefs-warning-explicit-sex-education-lessons/

      Children are being taught sex education lessons that have “no basis in any reputable scientific biological explanation”, the head of the schools regulator Ofsted has warned.

      Pupils in some secondary schools have been told there are 100 genders, while children are being taught gender fluidity as fact in some major academy trusts and independent schools, an investigation by The Telegraph has found.

      Amanda Spielman, chief inspector of Ofsted, told this newspaper she has warned the Government that the current relationships and sex education (RSE) guidance places no limit on what can be taught.

      She warned that Ofsted is currently powerless to sanction schools teaching inappropriate material.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Iirc this was covered in a Monty Python movie.

        Though these days the thought of Dr. McHammocklashing’s good lady firing ping pong balls to 3E is a dubious evolution.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Up2
      I think the early sexualising of children is a very sad thing . In my view kids should be as ‘innocent ‘ as they can be for as long as possible . I’m a happy chappie and I didn’t find out about girls until I hit 35 ….
      But I suppose explaining sodomy to 5 year olds is ‘approved ‘… mental illness eh ?

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Fed, I think there is a danger in schools usurping the place of parents but …. sadly … now, there are too many single mothers trying to bring up children of both genders and all the others in-betweenies on their own without a good father role model.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Yes – another bit of glorious social engineering – breeding bastards …..

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        • Northern Voter says:

          Altogether now, to the tune of the Ovaltinies,

          We are the inbetweenies,
          neither girls nor boys.

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  26. G says:

    Yeah!! Celebrate 75 years of NHS!! Let’s clap every hour, on the hour!!

    If my current experience is anything to go by, the unusual deaths of between 10 – 15% over the statistical norm is principally not due to having had the Covid vaccination. Some element of the numbers is due to Covid vaccinations but, I’m convinced it is more to do with the Government’s ‘Plan B’. Plan B is easily achieved by default. By default of the utter incompetence the NHS is sliding inexorably into. Increasing the death rate by a significant percentage due to patients not being seen and diagnosed with serious conditions needing urgent treatment (notwithstanding that the ‘next step’ is/should be a hospital appointment). That ‘urgency’ has long gone. Plan B allows the NHS to deny urgent treatment by delay resulting in excess deaths. Welcomed by the Government who, if they were honest, failed in their attempt to kill off as many Brits as possible during the “Covid Crisis”.

    “On 1 January 2023, the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine suggested the crisis in urgent care could be causing “300-500 deaths a week”.
    Our favourite news source being honest:
    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-64209221

    I’ve just obtained a telephone consultation with a GP three weeks from now. Imagine my mirth when that ‘telephone consultation’ coincided with an appointment in the surgery for a blood test………….. Imagine having the blood extracted and the telephone rings from the GP, probably in the next room. The moron spoken to did not have the capacity to see the joke.

    Fact: NHS is in a ‘Death Spiral’ and I’m looking forward to the ONS tracking and publicising ‘Life Expectancy’ rates which is now over the apex on the graph (? – will they though?).

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    • kingkp says:

      I suggest you look up Denis Rancourt’s studies on the matter. He conclusively proves using all-cause mortality statistics that the vast majority of these deaths are being caused by the jabs. Or check out John Campbell’s latest video on YT that covers this study
      https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13998
      which shows that around 80 percent of the adverse effects/deaths were caused by less than 5 percent of the batches. In other words, it was a trial run. Had they been more deadly they wouldn’t have gotten away with it. I suspect the next time around that 5 percent will be increased dramatically and be forewarned that next time is not far off.

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  27. StewGreen says:

    8am news , Hugh Pym disinforms by opening with talk about NHS beds
    A bad health system needs lots of beds
    Whereas a good health system uses the resources to get things done quickly
    eg patient comes in in morning, then home in afternoon
    The fact UK has fewer hospital beds per 1000 population than some countries is not necessarily a losing situation.

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    • moggie63 says:

      My uncle was scheduled for an operation on a severely ulcerated leg in the late 90’s. 4 times it was postponed/cancelled, the last time as I was helping him into a ward. He died without ever having it. Result for the NHS. Money saved. Bonuses all round. I’m absolutely not bitter about it, not at all.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        moggie, that’s a truly sad tale and shows how much the NHS has failed. A lot depends on good communication between GPs, Social Services and Community Nurses a.k.a. District Nurses. My poor disabled mother developed an ulcerated bottom but we had a great GP who had the Community Nurse visit at regular intervals so it had healed completely by the time of her death. The carers who came in to help us, thanks to said GP and Social Services, were also great. But, just two miles away, in a different Local Authority with a different political party in charge, it was a completely different story.

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    • StewGreen says:

      “fewer beds” is a DELIBERATE and good choice
      A department can spend money on beds and treat 10 patient per day
      or spend money on robot tech etc. and treat 20 patients per day

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      • G says:

        Or, better spent on Foreign Aid which, I believe is about £11 Billion at present. Yeah!! borrow more from the Gilt Market to finance O/seas aid. F*uck the Brits! They can doggedly keep paying back on instalments.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      CIA Director William Burns called Russia’s war on Ukraine a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to recruit spies for the intelligence agency.

      “Disaffection with the war will continue to gnaw away at the Russian leadership, beneath the steady diet of state propaganda and practiced repression. That disaffection creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity for us at CIA, at our core a human intelligence service,” Burns said in a lecture Saturday to the Ditchley Foundation in the United Kingdom, according to a transcript of his remarks.
      https://sonar21.com/cia-chief-burns-descent-into-delusion/

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  28. Fedup2 says:

    Seems a TV presenter has been diagnosed with dementia in her early 60s – I don’t know who she is – but I’ve been down that road so I wish her and her family the best .

    But if this story highlights the piss poor treatment dementia sufferers get from their NHS then that will be a positive – no politician gives a damn about ‘social care ‘ which is one of the many reasons I have little time for the various brand of scum

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    • StewGreen says:

      It is celebrity tittle tattle
      but it adds context to other celebrity tittle tattle.

      The ITV executive who seemed to perform poorly by talking about avocados rather than answering door steppers question about Philip Schofield’s young boyfriend
      .. is the husband of the celebrity with dementia so he has been under extra pressure for last two years

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  29. harry142857 says:

    Not the BBC.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/fundraiser-for-officer-who-shot-nahel-outstrips-donations-to-victim-s-family/ar-AA1dqhMW?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=4f8727cc82b142189f2c8f4504fcbc0b&ei=8#comments

    Fundraiser for officer who shot Nahel outstrips donations to victim’s family

    Acampaign to raise money for the family of the policeman who shot dead French teenager Nahel M. topped 1.47 million euros ($1.6 million) on Tuesday, far outstripping donations to Nahel’s family and causing shame and anger among many French people.

    The fallout from the shooting, and from the wave of rioting it triggered in France’s poor suburbs, continued to dominate political debate, with Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne advocating in parliament a crackdown on young rioters and their parents.
    resident Emmanuel Macron hosted a three-and-a-half-hour meeting with 302 mayors of towns where rioting took place, described as “cathartic” by one of the participants, and told them violence was subsiding.

    “Will the return to calm last? I would be prudent, but the peak that we experienced these past few days is over,” Macron was quoted as saying.

    After listening to a range of views from the mayors, he said some humility was necessary as there was no consensus emerging on how best to respond to everything that had happened.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      2016 … we are winning … An 84-year-old priest was killed and four other people taken hostage by two armed men who stormed his church in a suburb of Rouen in northern France. The two attackers, who said they were from the so-called Islamic State (IS), slit Fr Jacques Hamel’s throat during a morning Mass, officials say.26 Jul 2016

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    • Up2snuff says:

      harry, isn’t that described as ‘voting with your pocket book’ (ie. wallet or purse) in the USA?

         3 likes

  30. Dickie says:

    Garland Nixon and Andreii Telizhenko (former Ukranian political advisor and diplomat)

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  31. MarkyMark says:

    How much does NHS cost for tourists?
    Any treatment that may have to be paid for will be charged at 150% of the national NHS rate. The UK government always advises visitors to the UK to take out travel or health insurance that has the necessary healthcare coverage for their needs.31 Dec 2020

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  32. MarkyMark says:

    Use of the NHS—by foreign visitors who’ve ended up being treated while in England, for non-permanent residents and illegal migrants —is estimated to cost just under £1.74 billion a year. See Department of Health assessment, which broke down the costs as follows:

    £340m for EEA visitors and non-permanent residents to the UK (excluding expats). While the UK was a member of the EU, the government estimated that approximately £180m of this was recoverable through the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC), with the remainder potentially recoverable through S1 (£60m) and other arrangements. It was estimated that the NHS recovered around £50m in one year, less than 20% of the total potentially recoverable amount.

    £1,070m for non-EEA visitors and temporary migrants to England. Of this approximately 14% (around £156m) was thought to be potentially, currently chargeable because the total gross expenditure includes both the costs of non-chargeable services
    A&E and primary care and those individuals who are currently not chargeable due to being ordinarily resident or otherwise exempt.

    £330m for illegal migrants

    Total = £1.74 billion

    https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/news/2021/10/21/health-tourism

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    The National Health Service (NHS) in England is at the centre of a big political row about its reform. It’s often said to be the third biggest employer in the world, after the Chinese army and Indian Railways. But is that really true?

    It’s an incredible claim, given how much smaller the UK is than China or India.

    And indeed, it is not true.

    Sizing up the world’s biggest employers and compiling a list of the top 10, the NHS is revealed to be the fifth largest, with 1.7 million workers across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

    Second place goes to the Chinese military – the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) – with forces numbering 2.3 million.

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17429786

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  34. Guest Who says:

    Politics and media today.

    https://twitter.com/snb19692/status/1676497905245405190?s=61

       3 likes

  35. Guest Who says:

    Mixed analysis.

    David Lammy swung her a gig at the White House?

       8 likes

  36. MarkyMark says:

    Wimbledon 2023: Andy Murray watched by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe at All England Club

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    ….

    British and British-Iranian dual nationals are at very/significantly high risk of arbitrary arrest, questioning or detention. Holding a British passport can be reason enough for the authorities to target you. If you are detained in Iran, you could face months or years of imprisonment.

    https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/iran/safety-and-security

    ….

    Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe tells Andy Murray she ‘misses prison environment and her friends’ after spending six years in Iranian jail

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11579515/Nazanin-Zaghari-Ratcliffe-tells-Andy-Murray-misses-prison-environment-friends.html

       6 likes

    • Dickie says:

      Believe she was involved with BBC Media Action. The Iranians didn’t take too kindly to that. Boris Johnson inadvertently let the cat out of the bag in Parliament when he was Foreign Sec. Said she was “teaching” which was denied by all her supporters. Caused an eruption in the HoC and media.

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      • Rob in Cheshire says:

        Dickie:

        Boris is a notorious bluffer. I very much doubt he studied his brief, and probably said the first thing which came into his head.

        He was slapdash in everything, his marriage, his affairs, even the way he dressed. I have never seen a grown man walking around with his shirt tail hanging out as often as Boris.

        It was this approach and failure to get a grip which led to Partygate and the end of his term of office. He had everything, and he blew it. Saying something wrong about a hostage he could not care about is a very small offence in the grand scheme of Boris’s cock ups, sad to say.

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        • StewGreen says:

          @Rob : Fact Check ” led to Partygate ”
          Almost as soon as the first lockdown started Boris was declared as down with Covid and then in hospital
          So he was in no position to police offices in Parliament .

          I think it was about a month earlier that he had been going around a hospital shaking everyone’s hand to prove how he was like princess Diana
          March 27 tests positive
          March 3 said he’d been shaking hands in the hospital “the other day”
          .. https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1234818686688661504

             1 likes

          • Rob in Cheshire says:

            Stew:

            By November 2020 Boris was fit and well. He had no business allowing “morale boosting” drinks parties to take place at No 10. If he had been a serious politician, and indeed a leader, he would have understood this. But he is a bluffer, and could not change his ways. And so a government with an 80 seat majority fizzled out into nothing. What a shame it all was.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      So, in relation to Net Zero, why is a nominally Conservative government dancing to a tune played by left-wing dreamers? Why is it not following the example of the Conservative governments of the Eighties in rejecting such self-destructive nonsense? It’s bizarre.

      …………………..

      The Great Leap Forward of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1958 to 1962. CCP Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society through the formation of people’s communes. Mao decreed that efforts to multiply grain yields and bring industry to the countryside should be increased. Local officials were fearful of Anti-Rightist Campaigns and they competed to fulfill or over-fulfill quotas which were based on Mao’s exaggerated claims, collecting non-existent “surpluses” and leaving farmers to starve to death. Higher officials did not dare to report the economic disaster which was being caused by these policies, and national officials, blaming bad weather for the decline in food output, took little or no action. Millions of people died in China during the Great Leap, with estimates ranging from 15 to 5

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

      ………………..

      The new rulers of Cambodia call 1975 “Year Zero”, the dawn of an age in which there will be no families, no sentiment, no expressions of love or grief, no medicines, no hospitals, no schools, no books, no learning, no holidays, no music, no song, no post, no money – only work and death.

      John Pilger, Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia (1979)[1]
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(political_notion)

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  37. StewGreen says:

    9am BBC Lincolnshire news had a long report about moving a dog’s grave from Scampton
    but studiously avoided mentioning the name .. Honky.
    https://twitter.com/milesy1961/status/1676395740816453632

       14 likes

  38. MarkyMark says:

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  39. Althepalerp says:

    I’ve given up.
    let labour have a term in government, clear out all those leftie Tory MPs, and hopefully the party and country will swing back to the right in a 2028

       9 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      You think there deserves to be a Party ? …

         7 likes

      • MarkyMark says:

        Non of Above Party.

        ……………………………..

        26m tonnes of waste plastic bottles are discarded every year in the UK of which only 45% are recycled. The Loony Party has the answer.. Stop making them..

        Before you ask…We have found an alternative. Its called glass.

        General Election 2022 Manicfesto —— For the Manic, Not the Few

        We pledge to fight this election on an invisible platform so that people cannot see the floors in our policies.

        Once in Government, we will replace the Foreign Secretary with a British one!

        Waitng Lists

        We will reduce hospital waiting lists by using a smaller font.

        Immigration

        We will reduce net migration by making sure that any nets are secured more firmly to the ground.

        Inflation

        We will reduce inflation by giving everyone free pins

        Government Policy

        When formulating Policies the Government relies heavily on Expert Advise. Remember – Experts built the Titanic

        The Loony Party will also take into account the opinion of “Dave on Facebook”

        Energy Policy

        We will get rid of the Energy Price Cap and replace it with a Top Hat (This will also help our Millenery Industry)
        2. We will get rid of all Standing Charges. (We are quite capable of sitting down and freezing to death)
        3. All the hot air spoken in Parliament will be redirected to the Gas Distribution Networks.
        Stressful times in the House
        In order to calm down the passions and stresses currently exhibited in Parliament, the Loony Party would make all M.P’s have half an hours compulsory Tai chi everyday.
        This would counteract the other 23 ½ hours Chi Ting they do for the rest of the time

        Corruption

        We in The Loony Party are quite willing to accept bribes , and inducements from the Government in exchange that we don’t stand in the election.
        We will combat corruption in public life by taking part in it openly, we will also introduce the Board of Bribery who will set standardised rates?
        Northern Powerhouse

        The Loony party will invest millions in the Northern Powerhouse.
        For clarification all parties agree that, as normal, the North starts at Hadrians Wall and ends where Scotland starts

        Brexit

        The Border in Northern Ireland would be made out of sponge to prevent a Hard Border
        We will renegotiate to stay and lead the E.U and then sack the other 27 countries
        Identity Theft

        We propose to prevent identity theft instantly by calling everyone Dave.

        Play Grounds

        We will redevelop Playgrounds for all age groups.

        Civil Service

        The Civil Service will be extended to all branches of government, because a little politeness goes a long way.

        Culture

        The British Museum should have a Daddy’s section alongside the current Mummy exhibition.??

        Transport

        We will only paint yellow lines where you CAN park. Potholes deeper than 3 inches will be marked with a yellow plastic duck .

        Elections

        All political and electoral leaflets will be printed on soft Toilet paper so that it may be recycled in the appropriate manner. ??

        NHS

        In an effort to reduce the problems faced by the NHS , it is proposed to reduce pregnancy from nine to seven months ?

        https://www.loonyparty.com/about/policy-proposals/

           7 likes

    • moggie63 says:

      You think we’ll still be allowed to vote then?

         3 likes

  40. Zephir says:

    Our trusted and verified news sources, some advice from a while ago

       7 likes

  41. Zephir says:

    “Richard McNeil-Willson Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
    1
    On the banning of Far Right groups and symbols, in an online and offline context
    Paper Abstract
    This paper aims to consider potential responses to Violent Right-wing Extremist (hereon in, VRWX) online
    content – such as reference to proscribed groups and symbolism – through a unified EU Member State
    approach. It will do this by examining the current practices of those that have used long-lists as reference
    points for assessment the risk of online VRWX content, to develop a set of issues that need to be addressed.
    These issues will be explored and used to construct a discussion on how a potential an EU-wide approach could
    be articulated.”

    Click to access EUIF%20RWE%20Workshop%20October%202020%20McNeil-Willson%20paper_en.pdf

       3 likes

  42. Zephir says:

    “France riots: What is behind the violent protests?

    Major violence has spread through urban areas across France in recent days following the police shooting of an unarmed teenager in Nanterre.”

    https://news.sky.com/video/france-riots-what-is-behind-the-violent-protests-12914371

       3 likes

  43. MarkyMark says:

    I, for one, welcome our new overlords ….

    China claims that 230,000 fraud suspects were ‘persuaded to return’ by using these methods in the fifteen months between April 2021 and July 2022. According to the NGO report, the overseas service stations played an important part in these operations by helping Chinese authorities track down suspects. But such efforts, by “eschewing official bilateral police and judicial cooperation,” constitute a “violation of the international rule of law, as well as a violation of the territorial integrity of third countries,” the report claims.

    Hard proof of such mingling is, however, hard to come by. The report cites two stories in which the service stations played a role in persuading suspects to return home. In the first account, a Chinese businessman in Mozambique reported via ‘110 Overseas’ that his employee had stolen large amounts of money and returned to China. Upon being confronted by the Chinese police back home, the suspect mentioned another accomplice who was still in Mozambique. Chinese police then went on to pressure the accomplice’s family and thus managed to ‘persuade him to return.’ In the other instance quoted in detail, a man “deceived into engaging in illegal online gambling abroad” had called the ‘110 Overseas’ number to ask for help from the Chinese authorities to return home after “managing to escape his captors.” The authorities then carried out “systematic verification, visit, and investigation” to ensure the suspect could “return to China smoothly and surrender.”

    https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/ngo-report-claims-chinese-police-stations-are-in-30-countries/

    …………………….

    The Chinese government has bought an 8.7 per cent stake in the owner of Thames Water, the biggest water and sewerage firm in the UK.

    The state-run fund China Investment Corporation made the swoop on holding company Kemble Water following Chancellor George Osborne to Beijing this week to forge closer ties.

    It is thought to be the sovereign wealth fund’s first investment in the UK.
    https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-2089350/Thames-Water-targeted-government-run-China-Investment-Corporation.html

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  44. Zephir says:

    BBC via Spring:

    “The Light: Inside the UK’s conspiracy theory newspaper that shares violence and hate

    By Marianna Spring
    BBC disinformation and social media correspondent

    A UK conspiracy theory newspaper sharing calls for trials and executions of politicians and doctors has links with the British far-right and a German publication connected to a failed coup attempt, the BBC can reveal.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65821747

       6 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      John McDonnell apologises for Margaret Thatcher assassination comment
      This article is more than 13 years old
      Labour leadership candidate says yesterday’s remark was a joke but accepted that it may have caused offence
      https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/jun/08/john-mcdonnell-apologises-margaret-thatcher-remark

      ………………

      This article is more than 5 years old
      ‘Hang the Tories’ protest banner on Salford bridge denounced by MPs
      This article is more than 5 years old
      Huge hand-painted sign removed from bridge by police ahead of Conservative party’s conference in Manchester

      Staff and agencies
      Sat 30 Sep 2017 22.18 BST

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  45. Zephir says:

    BBC, hidden in Europe news:

    “France riots: Within days we were in hell, says mayor

    Zartoshte Bakhtiari says he hasn’t slept more than three hours a night since the riots in France began a week ago.

    By day, he’s the mayor of Neuilly-sur-Marne, in one of France’s poorest areas, east of Paris.

    By night, he patrols the streets with a dozen staff and city councillors until 04:00 or 05:00, acting as an early warning system for police taking on the rioters there.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66092431

       6 likes

  46. MarkyMark says:

    How to spot a mortgage TV TAX Payment scam with Matt Allwright
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0fyxdl2

       3 likes

  47. Zephir says:

    The violence of the far right ?

    Erm…where’s f’cking Spring when you need an unbiased invesatigation?

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9248823/family-nhs-worker-nazi-donald-trump/

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    • MarkyMark says:

      THE family of an NHS worker filmed screaming “Nazi” at a Donald Trump supporter have saiid they’re ’embarrassed’ by her vile rant.

      Siobhan Prigent was seen hurling abuse at a fan of the President in London during his first official state visit to the UK.

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